FOX 17 Nashville investigative reporter Kelly Avellino says new state data has blown the lid off a problem that already looked bad. Tennessee now confirms 2,547 people have been arrested for DUI since 2017 even though their blood tests later came back negative for alcohol and drugs.
In Avellino’s report, the headline isn’t just the number. It’s the fact the total is more than four times higher than what officials previously disclosed – 609 – before a new transparency law forced a deeper look.
That kind of revision doesn’t feel like a small math correction. It feels like Tennessee found an entire hidden layer of arrests that weren’t being counted the same way the public thought they were…